hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on People don't really know their own motivation for their actions 5 hours ago:
I don’t think that’s true for all decisions, but snap decisions, for sure.
- Comment on I ❤️ selfhosting 15 hours ago:
Check out RAM prices.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 3 days ago:
Just hit their car slightly with yours. You know, a love tap, to show them love and appreciation. Then show them your extended middle finger, signifying that you are standing with them in solidarity of thinking you’ve made a mistake. If you have a weapon with you, you can hold it up and show them to indicate that you are aware you could be perceived as a threat, but are making the effort to indicate that you aren’t.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 3 days ago:
Weren’t you also the Lead Safety Engineer at OceanGate for a while?
- Comment on ChatGPT is down for many users in major OpenAI outage - 9to5Mac 3 days ago:
Oh no! They’ll have to actually think!
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 4 days ago:
I was a manager at a RadioShack. And it was a franchise, so it’s even less verifiable (I think).
- Comment on GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark 5 days ago:
Though it’s not technically unique to Port87, I haven’t seen any other email service that lets you do it with simple toggles. Sieve is more powerful, but also harder.
- Comment on GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark 5 days ago:
I could not possibly care less about GoG’s marketing emails. They all go into a Port87 label that is set to mark them as read and not notify me.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 5 days ago:
Microsoft is killing itself with shit vibe code.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 6 days ago:
I’d love to play games like Fortnight, PUBG, and League of Legends (I know, don’t judge me), but they don’t work on Linux, so they’re just a no-go for me. I used to play GTA V Online, but they added kernel anticheat to that too, and now I don’t play that anymore.
I have Windows, but I’m not booting into another partition just to play a game. I use it for compiling my software for Windows users, and that’s already too much of a pain in the ass. I cannot stand Windows. It’s a bloated mess, and I don’t understand how anyone gets any actual work done on it. Just navigating it feels like a chore.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Could a diffusion image model be used to "bake" slow operations like erosion to make them realtime? 6 days ago:
If it’s not a continuous function, it won’t tile across chunk borders, so we’d have to solve that. That might be solvable by using the current chunks as the outer edges of the image, but I can’t say for sure. Diffusion models don’t usually stay consistent when you do that.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
Does Jellyfin not do transcoding? I’ve been using it with transcoding for almost two years, so if it doesn’t, man that’s gonna be quite the shock.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I prefer the term “dude”, but yeah, if you’re not on one, you just don’t have the right friends. It does take a fair bit of work, but I don’t really mind sharing the fruits if I’m doing it for myself anyway.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
I would assume it’s because most of them are still children.
- Comment on Chinese man dies after intensive work week, receives office text 8 hours posthumously 1 week ago:
Is this unusual? I feel like in our modern hellscape of capitalism, this probably happens frequently.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) 1 week ago:
I really do not want an AI doing all of those things for me. That would be like giving a four year old full access to my computer.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
Since they renamed Microsoft Office to Copilot, they have millions of Copilot users. It’s almost as popular as Google+ when Google made all Gmail users Google+ users.
- Comment on Guitar technology 1 week ago:
You want magnets that powerful next to your face?
- Comment on Guitar technology 1 week ago:
That is the scariest guitar I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok 1 week ago:
I like to think Hell is just a big constant party. I mean, all the best people are there, and Satan seems like a pretty chill guy in the Bible. I bet his parties are just non-stop fun.
If you believe in what the Bible says, Christians are in Heaven. This list includes Hitler, much to the dismay of many Christians I know who have rewritten the rules in their mind in order to exclude him. I don’t know if you’ve ever hung out with a huge group of exclusively Christians, but it’s not exactly what I would describe as “fun”.
- Comment on One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s, [The Dark Eye], is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century 1 week ago:
I used to think ancient games were hard to play, trying to build a retro box, failing, trying to run a Win 98 VM, failing, trying to install patches on Win 10, failing, etc. Then I tried installing them on Linux with Lutris, and everything worked.
- Comment on Help! What is wrong? 1 week ago:
Microwave will not work. You can use your printer’s heated bed to dry it. Look up how to do it online, but basically you lay it on the bed, put a box over it to enclose it, turn the bed to 55°, and let it dry like that for 10 hours. That’s for PLA though, so you may have to go hotter for PETG.
- Comment on Help! What is wrong? 1 week ago:
Yes. This absolutely looks like a moisture issue. Drying the filament will almost definitely help.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Feel free to try. Here’s the library I use: nymph.io
It’s open source, and all the docs and code are available at that link and on GitHub. I always ask it to make a note entity, which is just incredibly simple. Basically the same thing as the ToDo example.
The reason I use this library (other than that I wrote it, so I know it really well) is that it isn’t widely known and there aren’t many example projects of it on GitHub, so the LLM has to be able to actually read and understand the docs and code in order to properly use it. For something like React, there are a million examples online, so for basic things, the LLM isn’t really understanding anything, it’s just making something similar to its training data. That’s not how actual high level programming works, so making it follow an API it isn’t already trained on is a good way to test if it is near the same abilities as an actual entry level SWE.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
I played around with it a lot yesterday, giving it documentation and asking it to write some code based on the API documentation. Just like every single other LLM I’ve ever tried, it just bungled the entire thing. It made up a bunch of functions and syntax that just doesn’t exist. After I told it the code was wrong and gave it the right way to do it, it told me that I got it wrong and converted it back to the incorrect syntax. LLMs are interesting toys, but shouldn’t be used for real work.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 2 weeks ago:
Why would they ask consumers what they want when they can tell consumers what they want. What are you gonna do, move to Linux?
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
It’s integrated graphics so it uses up to half of the system RAM. I have 96GB of system ram, so 48GB of VRAM. I bought it last year before the insane price hikes, when it was within reach to normal people like me.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I get that, but why is Proton offering one? What value do I get from Proton’s LLM that I wouldn’t get from any other company’s LLM? It’s not privacy, because it’s not end to end encrypted. It’s not features, because it’s just a fine tuned version of the free Mistral model (from what I can tell). It’s not integration (thank goodness), because they don’t have access to your data to integrate it with (according to their privacy policy).
I kind of just hate the idea that every tech company is offering an LLM service now. Proton is an email and VPN company. Those things make sense. The calendar and drive stuff too. They have actual selling points that differentiate them from other offerings. But investing engineering time and talent into yet another LLM, especially one that’s worse than the competition, just seems like a waste to me. And especially since it’s not something that fits into their other product offerings.
It truly seems like they just wanted to have something AI related so they wouldn’t be “left behind” in case the hype wasn’t a bubble. I don’t like it when companies do that. It makes me think they don’t really have a clear direction.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I completely agree. Using Gmail is the problem here, and no amount of settings fiddling will solve that.